"A sobering reality check and an impressive work of fiction." --Washington Times
"An affecting, chilling historical novel." --New York
"Lurid and delightful, written with wit and real maturity." --Kirkus Reviews
"Genuinely beautiful and disturbing." --Village Voice
"Garrigan is the perfect foil for Amin, whose overwhelming physical presence, peacockish rhetoric and cold-blooded savagery are so well captured as to make this novel more than a mesmerizing read: it is also a forceful account of a surrealistic and especially ugly chapter of modern history."
--Publishers Weekly
Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his Maserati, has hit a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, obsessed with all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. So begins a fateful dalliance with the African leader whose Emperor Jones-style autocracy would transform into a
reign of terror.
In The Last King of Scotland, Foden's Amin is as ridiculous as he is abhorrent: a self-proclaimed cannibal who, at the end of his eight years in power, would be responsible for 300,000 deaths. As Garrigan awakens to his patient's barbarism--and his own complicity in it--we enter a venturesome meditation on conscience, charisma, and the slow corruption of the human heart.
Adam Nicolson
Adam Nicolson
Publisher : Harper Collins US
Duration : 6 hours
Categories : Historical War & Military
Download Price : $29.95 $19.95
A heroic tale of duty amidst the battle of Trafalgar, Seize the Fire is an unmissable epic. More info...
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Bernard Cornwell
Paul McGann
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Duration : 3 hours 42 minutes
Categories : Historical War & Military
Download Price : $12.75
It is 1809 and Lieutenant Sharpe, who belongs to a small British army that has a precarious foothold in Portugal... More info...
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Bernard Cornwell
Paul McGann
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Duration : 2 hours 44 minutes
Categories : Historical War & Military
Download Price : $12.75
'Sharpe's Battle' takes Richard Sharpe and his Riflemen back to the spring of 1811 and one of the bitterest battles of the Peninsular... More info...
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Jude Deveraux
Judith Light
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Duration : 3 hours
Categories : General Western Historical
Download Price : $10.95
Captain Ring Montgomery was handsome, a skilled rider, a crack shot, popular with the men and their ladies. More info...
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Lyndsey Davis
Full Cast Production
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Duration : 3 hours
Categories : Dramatizations Detective Historical British Drama
Download Price : $22.75
Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the fourth novel in Lindsey Davis’s bestselling series featuring Roman private eye Falco. More info...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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